tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
ATTENTION:
doors: 5.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 6.00 pm CET
Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love
The way Aki Takase and Daniel Erdmann play together can hardly be described as anything other than telepathic. They combine inventiveness with technical perfection. The two musicians have a lot to tell each other and us. The precision with which they master unisons and rapid changes of tempo does not stand in the way of their flight into the open, but rather opens the doors to it....
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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
ATTENTION:
doors: 5.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 6.00 pm CET
Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love
The way Aki Takase and Daniel Erdmann play together can hardly be described as anything other than telepathic. They combine inventiveness with technical perfection. The two musicians have a lot to tell each other and us. The precision with which they master unisons and rapid changes of tempo does not stand in the way of their flight into the open, but rather opens the doors to it.
The desire for free, individual expression and admiration for the jazz tradition led Aki Takase and Daniel Erdmann almost instinctively to Duke Ellington.
The work of the great master – his compositions, his orchestral pieces, the diversity of his oeuvre and his piano playing – proved to be the ideal starting point for the duo’s playing adventures. Ellington became fuel for the imagination. The two found a variety of approaches. The spectrum ranges from a close proximity to the original to reinterpretations, from variation to deconstruction and alienation to the creation of something completely original, which is no longer inspired by the material of the originals, but by the mood and atmosphere of the compositions or original recordings. Themes from Duke Ellington show the duo the way to the essence of their joint playing: improvisation.
Duke Ellington’s music is particularly suitable for the duo excursions because it is so universal and because it occupies a central place in jazz history. Ellington succeeded in building a bridge from the traditional to the modern, from the traditional to the avant-garde. Just as Ellington himself referred to the continuum of African-American music, Aki Takase and Daniel Erdmann can now project his work onto his predecessors, his contemporaries and his successors, placing it in a context that ranges from ragtime and stride piano to Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell to Cecil Taylor, from Schoenberg and Stravinsky to Conlon Nancarrow, from Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins to John Coltrane and the present day.
adapted from Bert Noglik
Aki Takase was born in Osaka and grew up in Tokyo. She already had piano- lessons when she was three years old. Piano was her main subject during her studies at the Tohogakuen University in Tokyo. 1979 a longer stay in the USA followes, first European appearance and celebrated performance in 1981 at the Jazzfestival Berlin at Philharmony with her trio featuring Takeo Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Ino. Numerous tours and recordings with Dave Liebman, Sheila Jordan, Cecil McBee, Lester Bowie, Fred Frith, Otomo Yoshihide, Bob Moses, Joe Henderson, Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen, John Scofield and many more.
In the 90s very successful duos and worldwide tours with the singer Maria Joao and the saxophonist David Murray. Trio with Reggie Workmann and Rashied Ali, duos with Alexan von Schlippenbach and projects with Toki String Orchestra.
UDJ Award for Aki Takase in 1990, 1991, 1994, and 1998. From 1997 to 1999 she worked as guest-lecturer at the university for music „Hanns Eisler “ in Berlin. In 1998 she received the Critic Award of the „Berliner newspaper“. 2001 her Solo-CD’S „Le Cahier du Bal „(Leo Records) was published as well as her „W.C.Handy-Project“ with Rudi Mahall, Nils Wogram, Fred Frith and Paul Lovens „St. Louis Blues“ (Enja Records), which received the SWR Jazzaward in 2002.
In 2004 the prestigious Yearly German Critics Award (Jahrespreis der dt. Schallplattenkritik) followed. Since then numerous new projects like duos with Alexander von Schlippenbach, Lauren Newton, Han Bennink, Silke Eberhard and Louis Sclavis as well as in Trio with LOK 03 (Alexander von Schlippenbach & DJ Illvibe), TAMA (Jan Roder and Oliver Steidle), Aki and the Good Boys, La Planete Quartet with Louis Sclavis, Vincent Courtois and Dominique Pifarely, to mention just a few.
She is one of the most creative jazzartists nowadays. For years she cooperates with dancer extraordinaire Yui Kawaguchi in their ongoing project Die Stadt Im Klavier. Aki Takase received the Berlin Jazzaward 2018, in 2021 Deutscher Jazzpreis as best solo artist piano/ keyboards as well as the Albert-Mangelsdorff Preis.
Daniel Erdmann was born in 1973 in Wolfsburg, Germany. He has been playing the saxophone since 1983 and studied a.o.with Gebhard Ullmann at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler. He recorded albums for various labels, i.a. BMC, ENJA, ACT, LABEL BLEU, INTAKT and plays concerts worldwide with bands and musicians like Das Kapital, Vincent Courtois, Aki Takase, Carlos Bica, Heinz Sauer, Samuel Rohrer, Henri Texier. In 2014 he founded the German-French company DAS ATELIER and his new band Daniel Erdmann’s Velvet Revolution with Théo Ceccaldi and Jim Hart. The first album of the band ( BMC Records ) was awarded the Year Award of German Critic and an Echo Jazz. Daniel Erdmann also collaborates with dancer Nicolas Fayol and painter Jean Michel Hannecart, and in autumn 2019 Velvet Revolution’s second album was released.
In 2020 Daniel received the SWR Jazzpreis and in 2021 the Deutscher Jazzpreis in the Woodwind category.
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